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Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White.

Joining me is Mr. Lair Reveen.

Thanks, Mike, for including me in this discussion.

This week we are looking at Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates.

Released in 1968, the film is something of a look at the life of Armenian singer Sayat Nova, told in a very oblique and beautiful way.

I'll be honest, this is another one of those films where I feel completely outclassed by the material.

This is like when we covered on the Silver Globe or the Holy Mountain, but I'm going to try to do my best and lead this discussion of this film, which, while only 70 minutes long, is a testimony to the endless power of cinema.

So, Larry, I'm curious, when was the first time you saw the color of pomegranates, and what did you think?

I was familiar with Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. I saw it actually when it was first released in New York at the Elgin Theater.

It impressed me so much in a special kind of way that it was almost embedded in my memory.

The color, there was kind of a greenish color, those horns, and the mist, a lot of mist in that film.

So it was, you know, it was very atmospheric.

And I have a friend who had bought the keynote box set, and I asked if I could, you know,

bar it to look at that.

And then the other, the other color of pomegranates was uh... included along with the uh...

a legend of this serami fortress

i was very comfortable with it and found it very

uh... interesting from the standpoint that

i i understand uh... poetic films sometime better than uh, interesting from the standpoint that I, I understand,

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